I've always known that I'm a little out of vogue.

I like it when my face tingles when the hair on the back of my neck stands up.

When I do a Western, I often wonder what I would have done in that situation.

I wait and take on projects that I think can work.

I don't give up. I'm a plodder. People come and go, but I stay the course.

I don't take much stock in other people's opinions if I think something's good.

I work for the public, for the people who are paying to go to the cinema, rather than for the critics.

Being a celebrity is probably the closest to being a beautiful woman as you can get.

You have to try to dismiss the loudness of cynicism. It's certainly going to come.

Conventional wisdom is so scary because what if everybody's wrong?

Conventional wisdom can get us into so much trouble, especially as artists.

I've never had that fear of going against the grain.

You can be as you choose to be. It's an act of discipline sometimes, but it can be done.

I wouldn't do the movie unless I thought it had a chance to be good.

It's such a cool thing in life to get what it is you want. Most of the time we don't, but occasionally we do.

When I see my children, and when I see the people who value me, I know how lucky I am.

You just do the things that you love and see if other people can like them too.

Life's better when it's fun. Boy, that's deep, isn't it?

A good idea is something like an emotion, you just can't keep it in.